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Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr answers questions from the media after his speech at the 16th Annual Institute for Corporate Counsel in Los Angeles, Calif., March 13, 1997. Starr said on Thursday that is would be wrong to set time limits on independent counsel probes, since justice does not occur in neat chronological chunks. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Judge orders report on Starr Clinton probe media leaks released

A federal judge Wednesday ordered the government to quickly process and release a long-secret report detailing an investigation into whether anyone in the independent counsel's office in the 1990s leaked grand jury information to the press.

August 22, 2018
This undated photo made available by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration shows heroin fentanyl pills. (DEA via AP)

Feds target manufacturers, dealers, doctors in major anti-opioid sweep

The Justice Department opened several new fronts Wednesday in the battle against opioid addiction, announcing legal action against Chinese manufacturers that ship drugs into the U.S., "dark net" operators who sell them to users, and doctors who overprescribe painkillers to their patients.

August 22, 2018
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen address the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cybersecurity Summit, Tuesday, July 31, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

DHS gets new leader on international affairs

Homeland Security has a new assistant secretary for international affairs with the elevation of Dimple Shah, who will shepherd the department's efforts to get other countries to cooperate on deportations and work on cutting their flow of illegal immigrants heading to the U.S.

August 22, 2018
United We Dream youths and allies snap their fingers to show support to other DACA recipients speaking to the media after a court hearing in lawsuit filed by states challenging DACA program at the United States District Courthouse on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018, in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP) ** FILE **

Judge halts full DACA restart

The federal judge who had ordered the government to restart the Obama-era deportation amnesty in full has backed off his decision and said the government does not, after all, have to begin accepting new applications.

August 18, 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Feds accuse Facebook of discrimination over ad-targeting policy

The Trump administration announced a fair housing discrimination complaint against social media giant Facebook on Friday, saying the way the company targets ads can be used to screen out people based on race, sex or other protected categories.

August 17, 2018
Anthony David Tovar Ortiz, center, is accompanied by attorney Ricardo de Anda after arriving to La Aurora airport in Guatemala City, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018. The 8-year-old stayed in a shelter for migrant children in Houston after his mother Elsa Ortiz Enriquez was deported in June 2018 under President Donald Trump administration's zero tolerance policy. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

Feds point fingers as illegal immigrant children face abuse: Senate probe

Illegal-immigrant children are slipping through the federal safety net designed to protect them from abuse, Senate investigators said in a new report released Wednesday that found no federal agency willing to step up and accept responsibility for them once they're released into the community.

August 15, 2018